Kitchen & Drink Blog

Cap City Fine Diner’s Executive Chef Dan Manley recently teamed up with 13-year-old Sydney Mazik for a cooking demonstration at Granville Middle School. The duo partnered through Kids & Chefs Cook for Success after Sydney won the Healthy Lunchtime Challenge for Ohio earlier this year with her recipe for spaghetti squash asparagus pie. Chef Dan and Sydney prepared vegetable risotto from scratch for three family and consumer sciences classes at Sydney’s school.

As the contest winner, Sydney also represented Ohio at a Kids’ “State Dinner” at the White House hosted by First Lady Michelle Obama, Sydney and Dan prepared her dish for a segment on Columbus’ 10TV and her dish was served at Cap City in August and September with a portion of the proceeds benefiting her charity of choice, Nationwide Children’s Hospital Neonatal Intensive Care unit.